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Ian McLoughlin
Head of School (Medway) / Professor of Computing
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Publications
My publications are available from the University of Kent's Academic Repository.
Also see my Google Scholar page.
Research Interests
About Professor McLoughlin
Over the past 29 years, Professor McLoughlin worked his way up from the most junior job grade in the electronics R&D industry to the most senior. He then repeated that in academia, becoming a Professor in 2012 (one of the few with experience in the 'real world' of industry).
After starting his career with about 5 years in industry, Professor McLoughlin undertook a PhD at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Soon afterwards he moved overseas to work in Singapore (10 years), New Zealand (5 years) and China (3 years), and has had short term work placements in several other countries. He returned to the UK in 2015 where he is now Head of School for the School of Computing in Medway (the school has two campuses, the main one is in Canterbury, the second one is in Medway).
Professor McLoughlin speaks Mandarin Chinese, 1st Century Greek, and likes to speak several other languages very badly (e.g. Malay).
Publications and Funding
Over his career, he has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, including in the most prestigious journals in his field, has 15 patents, and has received more than £5 million in personal research funding. He has been invited to deliver keynote speeches at international conferences, speak at award ceremonies in three countries and lead two large scale multi-country, multi-discipline research programmes with a combined budget of over £25 million. Almost all of this has been achieved during the past 8 years.
He has published several books, including two for Cambridge University Press and one for McGraw-Hill.
Awards
In 2005 Professor McLoughlin won the inaugural IEE/IET global Innovation in Engineering Award with a team he was leading in New Zealand, for innovative product design.
He became a Fellow of the IET (FIET) in 2013, a Senior Member of IEEE in 2004, a Eur. Ing. in 2003 and a chartered Electronic Engineer in 1998.
Professor McLoughlin was voted best teacher in USTC in 2015, and second best teacher in 2014 and has consistently maintained one of the top teaching feedback scores in his school for undergraduate lecturing.
Technology
With a great love of technology and an active interest in the application of Computer Engineering to the world, Professor McLoughlin has worked on a number of projects, including in the following areas:
- Speech signal processing
- Audio systems
- Human hearing and human-inspired machine hearing
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Language identification (LID)
- Embedded systems
- The ARM processor
- The Bionic Voice Project
- Super-audible Speech